Example sentences of "power of [art] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , these were the same as the general powers of a parent over a child of less than 14 years . |
| 2 | Addressing MEPs on the eve of the conference , Kohl said that steps must be taken to strengthen the powers of the EP before the next elections in 1994 , and that further national rights should only be relinquished to European institutions " if there exists a clear parliamentary control at European level " . |
| 3 | ‘ … we must act with moderation in order to avoid increasing the powers of the medicines to an undue extent by such trituration . |
| 4 | Bromley London Borough Council sought certiorari to quash the supplementary rate , arguing that it was either beyond the powers of the G.L.C. under the 1969 Act , or that it was an invalid exercise of discretion under that legislation . |
| 5 | The law , which increased the powers of the federation at the expense of the states , was to come into effect on July 1 . |
| 6 | But one thing has been proved by frequent controlled tests ; not only does the absorption of the substance into the system reduce the mental powers of the individual to a greater or lesser degree , but other problems arise because he imagines that he is actually able to function far better than usual . |
| 7 | The reasons for this phenomenon are varied : the tightening bonds of serfdom and the greater degree of social regimentation introduced by Peter the Great meant that a number of previously innocent practices ( tree-felling , salt-gathering , trespass , begging , vagrancy , and so on ) were criminalized and punished with hard labour and exile ; popular protest against the proliferating powers of the state in the form of minor revolts , mass insurgencies ( for example , Bulavin , Pugachev ) , large-scale banditry and escalating rates of petty crime were similarly dealt with ; the abolition of capital punishment for criminal offences in 1753 led to its replacement with ‘ civil execution ’ ( public flogging and mutilation followed by perpetual katorga ) ; and laws passed in 1766 and 1769 changed the usual place of penal servitude from Rogervik and other locations in European Russia to the silver mines and factories around Nerchinsk . |
| 8 | The difficulty with a post like that of judge of the regality court of Glasgow was that while it could help or harm a political interest , depending upon the use made of the powers of the court by the appointee , the office itself was not a profitable one if the judge was not trying to bend the laws to his own advantage . |
| 9 | This is going to be very tough , we face growing competition from the strong industrial manufacturing powers of the countries of the Pacific . |
| 10 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
| 11 | A central committee draft law discussing the powers of the presidency of the party was also introduced at the plenum . |
| 12 | Seven opposition members of the Assembly abstained from the vote , claiming that the new status strengthened the powers of the executive at the expense of the judiciary . |
| 13 | During a confused and unruly session pitting the powers of the executive against the legislature , the Congress refused to confirm the acting pro-reform Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar in the post , forcing instead the appointment of Viktor Chernomyrdin , hitherto a Deputy Premier and Fuel and Energy Minister . |
| 14 | The Constitution of Polynesia was amended by the French Parliament with effect from July 1990 to increase the powers of the President of the territorial government and those of the Territorial Assembly , and to establish five consultative local councils composed of elected territorial and municipal representatives . |
| 15 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although there was a strong presumption against interpreting a statute as taking away the right of silence of an accused person it was the plain intention of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 that the powers of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office should not come to an end when the person under investigation had been charged ; and that , accordingly , she was entitled to compel the applicant to answer questions on pain of commission of a criminal offence under section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 if he did not do so and no caution was appropriate ( post , pp. 68F–H , 81C–F , 83E , 86H ) . |
| 16 | Where the wife and new husband are to hold as beneficial joint tenants it is not strictly necessary to incorporate an express power of sale and purport to extend the powers of the trustees of the conveyance in the conveyance since the Law of Property Act 1925 ( ss35 and 36 ) already implies that they will hold upon the " statutory trusts " . |
| 17 | It is possible , therefore , to apply the considerable power of a computer to the process . |
| 18 | Since his famous experiment in 1752 when he flew a kite during a thunderstorm , and via a key and a wet thread safely discharged the power of a thunderstorm into the earth , his lightning rods were much sought after . |
| 19 | Power calculations ( the power of a study of a given size to detect a particular difference ) were applied prospectively to quantify the size of study required to detect a change of 40% with a power of 90% ( vide supra ) . |
| 20 | Thus the power of a group like the miners will depend upon the demand for coal compared to other forms of energy . |
| 21 | If the degree of moral outrage is widespread and simmering then the individual who ignites the fire has a high chance of success ; the enormous , potential power of the base of the hierarchy is ignited . |
| 22 | The power of the worker vis-a-vis the group members is acknowledged , but nowhere are the power differentials between members — attributable to race , gender , class and disability — recognised , or incorporated into the theory . |
| 23 | For Comte the fundamental law of human evolution consists in the ‘ growing ascendancy of our humanity over our animality , brought about by a double process , namely the increase of power of the intellect over the instincts and of the other-regarding instincts over the self-regarding ’ . |
| 24 | To reduce the power of the Gospel to a merely ‘ human ’ Jesus , without the cross and the resurrection as the heart of the Christian message , seemed fatal . |
| 25 | The Power of the Origin of the Created God |
| 26 | In ‘ The Dissolution of Character in the Novel ’ she expresses her faith in the power of the computer as a concept to change literature in the same way that print did nearly five hundred years ago : |
| 27 | This defeat of Ecgfrith represented a decisive stage in the delineation of the frontier between Mercians and northern Angles — so that henceforth the power of the king of the northern Angles was more narrowly defined as north-Humbrian — and went some way towards redressing the débâle of Wulfhere 's last year or so . |
| 28 | This primitive image would have been appropriate to the fierce power of the sun in the eastern deserts . |
| 29 | The leader appears to have a special aura , or power ( mana ) , around him which is compared to the power of the hypnotist over the subject , or the power of the analyst in the transference situation in analysis . |
| 30 | They point to the laws against divorce , abortion , and contraception , the power of the church in the education sector and past evidence of a hot-line between bishops and politicians as the proof of their contention . |